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DRAWING MARATHON - I
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DRAWING MARATHON - I
An Art Workshop for Young Art Practitioners
Conceptualized by Ruchika Wason Singh
October 13, 2018
at Critical Dialogues Art Space Delhi, India
Drawing Marathon is a conceptual approach to the practice of
drawing, stemming from developing a relationship between time
and drawing. The workshop sought to explore time as a
determinant/variable, in shaping the collaborative process of
drawing between a collective of artists. Modulated through timing,
the rhythm of creation is developed and altered in the continuity
and pauses, engagements and disruptions Time is utilised as an
agent to punctuate the artistic process with interludes , thereby
bringing in the scope of multiple interventions into individual
works within the group.
In its first edition, Drawing Marathon-I, a one-day art workshop
invited young graduates and post-graduates in art from India and
Bangladesh to participate . Between the individual and collective,
the experience of 'timing' of drawing also made the participants
transcend the boundaries of perceiving drawing ,through the
modalities previously acquired by them. In this sense, the
workshop also set to challenge the pre- established notions of
drawing, shaped by some current pedagogic practices.
Collaboration was guided by a random duality and/or multiplicity
emerging from 'timing'.This also meant that to a great extent, the
development of the form/s and the work, were chartered by the
sub-conscious and the unplanned, the spontaneous and the
unknown, the desired and the undesired, the growth of a form and
its aborted or altered imagination.
The artists worked on small format works on paper with mediums
such as collage, dry pastels, pens, pencils and ink and produced a
body of works. In a span of few hours, a range of expressions
resulted in negotiations of individual aesthetic sensibilities. Drawing
as an agency of imagination and expression created a zone of
surprise and discomfort, making it both an aesthetic and a
psychological collaborative exercise .The works produced by the
artists were exhibited by them at the site of the workshop itself.
Their extended engagement with the studio space allowed a
progression of the process, furthering their observation of their
own dextrous movements, mark making, linearity against the
unconventional display walls .The one-day workshop ended with
open-hours for public and drew avid viewership, response and
critique from their peers.
Ruchika Wason Singh visual artist - independent researcher December, 2018.
Avani Bakaya
Manisha Yadav
Manpreet Kaur
Ritika Mittal
Shubhra Shah
Sukanya Garg
Shreya Kharbanda
Shruti Sarkar
Ritika Sharma Tilottama
Vikrant
Critical Dialogues Art Space K-3/13 , Model Town 2nd, Delhi, India [email protected] | +91-
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